Wednesday 28 August 2013

Screen Lock Pro


 Screen Lock Pro


Screen Lock Pro, one can wonder, what's the difference? But there is a good technical difference between free and pro.

Why get Screen Lock Pro?

  • Better Battery power and CPU understanding, so it doesn’t interfere with other apps running in device. When CPU is busy doing some background jobs, or the battery is low, it don’t animate, rather just locks the device.
  • Various icons to choose from, which can be used to customize your personalized theme experience.
  • Sensor dependent features, let you do automated work, for locking, waking up the device, or for keeping the screen on when you are busy reading some long content.
  • Smart Lock support for Lollipop and above, which you can use for your convenience.
  • More control on lock sound, by using play sound upon animation start.

Understanding special preferences:

  • Shake to lock: When enabled you can shake the device above a specific gravitational force to lock it down, and shake the same way to wakeup the device. The force can be adjusted using Calibrate shake, the lesser the force the higher the sensitivity. In some practical situations like while traveling shake lock can be fired immediately when you unlock the device, so to deal with this situation you can enable Delay activation, doing so will activate Shake lock 15 seconds after the device is unlocked. When you play games, you generally love to play on landscape mode, and quite often you shake it, so Pause on landscape mode becomes a life saver.
 Similarly you can enable "Shake wakeup" to wakeup the device.
  • Flip cover: It’s a very popular feature among users and consumes very less amount of energy. When enabled, it takes Proximity sensor of the device into consideration. Cover the proximity to lock the device, and uncover to wake it up. It’s very handy if you use a flip cover or a cover to put the device safe.

  • Desk option: To enable Screen on off you must Calibrate ideal position. We like to keep device safe from outsiders with strong password, but sometimes it becomes a headache to put long passwords or we just don't want to do it quite often. Say for example you are reading some content, and need to go elsewhere from your working place and put the device on desk. What happens here? Device sleeps after sometime and gets locked. You can deal with this situation by enabling this feature. When you put the device on desk, screen will go off instantly, but the device will remain in unlocked position, when you pick it up, device will wakeup just where you left it. This feature is quite convenient for busy people, also for those who checks messages or email quite often at workplace.

  • Air swipe: It also takes Proximity sensor into consideration. Just swipe above proximity sensor for a selected number of times, the device will either get locked or just do a screen off depending on your selected Calibrate air swipe option. If you don’t use flip cover or don't like to use that, you can still take advantage of Proximity sensor using this feature. With Air swipe haptic feedback you can get a tiny amount of vibration when your hand comes near to Proximity sensor. It’s sometimes easy to identify how many times you are swiping above the sensor. Pause on landscape mode is yet a life saver when you play games.
 You can also use Air swipe to wakeup to wakeup the device in similar way.
  • Keep awake: Enabling the Movement listener will extend your ability to keep the device awake without touching the screen. You may have experienced while reading some long content in your device, screen dims and gets locked if you don't touch the screen in time. It’s quite annoying and distractive to our reading concentration. To deal with such situation, if Movement listener is enabled you can just move the device a little and prevent it from going to sleep mode.

  • Lollipop and Marshmallow: Although experimental, "Smart lock and Fingerprint sensor" is very useful. If you use this feature, enabling it will let the app support them. It's a kind of workaround so expect it to lock in 10+ seconds.

  • Workaround: Some features like Screen on off don't work alike in all devices. So there are alternative methods to support such features can be found in this category.

  • Services option: When using service driven sensor features we may some time accidentally lock the device. Enabling Home screen only feature, will let the app trigger the lock event only when we are at home screen of the device. (Note: "Home screen only" option no longer works for Android 5.1.1 and above as identification of running apps is not available to 3rd party apps for security reasons). To deal with this situation from v2.9p we have added Accessibility feature which you need to enable for Screen Lock Pro to let this feature work for you. 




35 comments:

  1. I use HTC One m8. When in the home screen, the animations work on only the icons, leaving the wallpaper to just disappear after the animation ends. Can you please provide an update?

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  2. Me sale falla en reiteradas oportunidades. La aplicación se detuvo. Mandé los informes

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  3. Habe die pro version gekauft leider funktioniert nicht richtig mit dem Note 3, bitte um eine update!

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  4. I got the pro version and I notice two drawbacks (in my opinion):
    1. When turning the screen on by air swipe the password is not required.
    2. There is a message on central of information that never desappear (active or pause air swipe turnê on and off) when air swipe is abilited.. And it become anoying.

    It was just two suggestions ;)
    Best regards!!

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    1. I thought that so too. But thats the features for productivity. 2 times air swipe is for quickly turning on and off the device while at work. I have found it very helpful as I have a complex password set. The notification message is to indicate that a special priority service is on and listening, it can not be removed as it's an Android specification for such apps. The developer has added an extra popup to it upon taping. Thats useful for quickly pausing the service, some times I use that while playing games.

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    2. Dear Thiago, the explanation by mkn is right. But still trying to find a way to remove that notification according to user choice. Once I find a safe way, it will be provided on coming updates.

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  5. Hi prahallad,

    I am unable to use air swipe on or off. I am using moto e with lollipop

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    1. Please also enable haptic feedback for air swipe. You should swipe two times quick for screen off but no lock; swipe three times quickly will lock the device. Using haptic feedback, you will find how your device is responding. Also check the proximity sensor in your device is in order, and responding smoothly, faulty or irresponsive sensors can also cause this problem. Do let me know the results over email.

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  6. Every method, swipe, placing on desk, button, shake both turns off scrren and locks. Settings are for screen to stay on 5 minutes after screen goes off. Administrator setting is checked.

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  7. How do ifix it so it doesn't lock only but can also just turn sceen on and off?

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    1. Please get in touch over email. Lets understand your problem, and fix it on coming updates.

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  8. Hi Prahallad,

    I would like to do partnership with you and help you make more money.

    Please connect me at farheen.b@matomy.com

    Thanks

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  9. it works great with nexus imprint, there is one small problem.
    if you have set different icon and restart the device, the default icon is replaces it

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  10. It's default language is Russian

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  11. It's a good app! the only problem I have is that the on and off sounds don't play every time, that happens with all my devices.

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  12. Hi,
    I appreciate that your app can support imprint and smart lock without root access. But I want to ask if you plan and when to remove 10+ seconds interval to lock the device. If I lock the phone with your app, I can't switch on the mobile phone in any way.
    Thanks for the answer.
    Best regards

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  13. Is it compatible with the fingerprint sensor? I will buy it if this app can lock my screen with the ability to unlock it using my fingerprint sensor not pattern / pass key

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  14. Не стабильное приложение, хочет работает хочет не работает. Жалею что потратил деньги.

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  15. Hi. I just bought your application (Screen Lock Pro) because you say you can unlock the smartphone using the fingerprint, but it really is not. I have a huawei p9 lite with android 7. Am I doing something wrong? Thank you

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  17. Hay un conflicto con el detector de huellas dactilares tienes que poner codigo...

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  18. Приложение не работает после покупки. Просит лицензию (((

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  19. What happened to the fingerprint sensor activating? With v4.0p it's gone or at least I can't found how to turn it on and fingerprint sensor doesn't work in my Samsung s7 after update.

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    1. Ok, I found the fingerprint sensor activation but fp-sensor doesn't work with Samart lock v4.0 as it is on Samsung s7. Maybe some more is needed to switch on or to do on.my phone, I don't know.

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  20. Htc 10 it now reports screenlock pro is running in the background I don't mind that just hate the icon at top saying it only happened after the update any way to stop the Android system report

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    1. Yes, just long press that notification and get inside "Details". There you can disable the notification.

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  22. Benim bu proğramı almam sebebi Daha önce çift dokun vardı diye aldın fakat hiç bir işlem görmüyordu, bu son güncelleme de ise çift dokunma özellğini kaldırılmıştır, yoktur niye acaba?

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  23. Good morning, I try to follow the YouTube instructions for use biometric control but I can use only with pin for my device Galaxy Note 8. Please help me again .

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    1. I guess you have already enabled "Fix biometric unlock", if not, enable that. Then select "Smart lock" as lock type for whichever locking feature you are using. This app is awesome and has introduced Android P like feature by separating both Admin lock, and Smart lock. Contact the dev if you are having problem over email. Dev is quick in reply and gives full support.

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